Oatmeal Joey Arnold (@JoeyArnoldVN)

Racism is sometimes defined as favoritism and at other times, abuse. Racism is a term which was hijacked and weaponized to a large extent by leftists and especially by the control freaks who uses the term to divide and conquer. Many words can become too widely vague in meaning depending on how people use the words. Too often, due to a lack of education, people become too disconnected from the depths and range of the true etymology of terms which can be specific and also extremely generalized at the same time. A single word can have so many different meanings, definitions. Too often, especially if a specific term is hijacked and altered, the general public can end up using a hijacked word, like racism for example, in the incorrect manner. When I hear the word, "RACISM," I think of it like the word, "HIT." See, when I hit you, that can be good or bad depending on the context. Some words can be specific and/or general at the same time. So, it depends. So, if I hit you, am I attacking you or am I defending myself? Were you running around killing people? So, I might be the hero when I hit you. That word, "HIT," is not bad. But it can be bad. Guns can be bad or good. Racism might be abuse. And abuse is bad. But sometimes people use racism to describe bias or favoritism or things relating to how things are or have been. If I am being cautious around black people, I might not be around them. I might not hire them. That does not mean every black person is bad. And I may be right or wrong or both in being careful around some black people or all black people. On average, according to statistics, you can look at who killed who on average in Chicago or in Africa. You might use the word racist or racism to describe my choice to be careful. I would argue I was being careful. I would argue being careful is good. You could argue that hurts your feelings. I could also choose not to hire some white people or yellow people or Muslims or the list goes on and on. It's not always about what color your skin is, your religion, politics, etc, etc. It depends..... Better yet, I may have a list of the kinds of people I am looking for. So, it can be more so that I am looking to hire certain people meaning it is not so much that I am not hiring certain people but more so that I am focusing on certain people who I end up hiring. Racism can be good, bad, both, neither, variations therein, etc. IT can depend. Choosing not to hire certain people can be good, bad, etc. A closed minded person who sees all black people as always bad with no exceptions is a racist. I think a lot of people can agree with that. But one of the problems we have is racism and hate of the white race.